Geneva Bible Notes (1560)2 Kings 20

^{1 !} Hezekiah is sicke and receyueth the signe of his health.

^{2 a} That his minde might not be troubled.

^{3 c} Not so muche for his owne death, as for feare that idolatrie shulde be restored which he had destroyed, and so Gods Name be dishonored.

^{3 b} Meaning, without all hypocrisie.

^{5 e} To giue thankes for thy deliuerance.

^{5 d} Because of his vnfained repentance & prayer God turned away his wrath.

^{7 f} He declareth that albeit God can heale without other medecines, yet he sheweth that he wil not haue these inferior meanes contemned.

^{10 g} Let the sunne go so manie degrees backe that the houres may be so manie the fewer in the Kings dial.

^{11 h} Which dial was set in the top of the stayres that Ahaz had made.

^{12 !} He receyueth rewardes of Berodach,

^{12 i} Moued with the fauour that God shewed to Hezekiah & also because he had declared him selfe enemie to Saneherib his enemie which was now destroied.

^{13 !} Sheweth his treasures, and is reprehended of Isaiah.

^{13 k} Being moued with ambition and vaine glorie, & also because he semed to rejoyce in the friendship of him that was Gods enemies & an infidele.

^{19 l} He acknowledgeth Isaiah to be the true Prophet of God, and therefore humbleth him selfe to his worde.

^{19 m} Seing that God hathe shewed me this fauour to grant me quietnes during my life: for he was afraied lest the enemies hsulde haue had occasion to rejoyce, if the Church had decaied in his time because he had restored religion.

^{22 !} He dyeth and Manasseh his sonne reigneth in his steade.